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The city is both the precondition and the objective of any work of architecture. For this inaugural ArchitectureAu Asks event, 2024 Gold Medallist Philip Thalis challenges us to consider the reciprocal relationship between architecture and the city context, and how it impacts the quality of urban life today.
How can public buildings announce their publicness in the most welcoming way, beyond any programmatic requirements? How can workplaces and office spaces invite engagement from their surrounds? And how can we create amenable, generous housing that breathes life into the street? In particular, how can we make a new generation of fantastically designed and long overdue public and affordable housing?
ArchitectureAu Asks is a series in which we pose questions that explore current and critical issues for experts and industry leaders to answer.
Philip Thalis is the 2024 Gold Medallist and principal of Hill Thalis Architecture and Urban Projects, a practice recognised for its independent standpoint and design expertise across a range of project types and scales.
Working equally for public and private clients, the practice has won more than 100 state and national awards, commendations and competition prizes for architectural, urban, public domain and heritage projects. Major competition winning projects include the Olympic Village – National Architecture Competition in 1992, and the East Darling Harbour International Competition in 2006. In 2009, Philip was awarded the Institute's NSW Presidents Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Architectural Profession (jointly with Peter John Cantrill), and in 2019 was made a Life Fellow.
Aileen Sage Architects was established in Sydney in 2013 by Isabelle Aileen Toland and Amelia Sage Holliday. As a practice, Aileen Sage seeks to bring other perspectives, too often overlooked, to the fore. Isabelle and Aileen have a highly collaborative approach to design and constantly challenge each other and others to seek better and more inclusive outcomes in what is built, and how we build it.
In 2016, Isabelle was a creative director for the Australian Exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale and received the Australian Institute of Architects Adrian Ashton Prize for Architectural Culture and Literature. In 2018 the practice was awarded the Institute's NSW Emerging Architects Prize.
As director of Winsor Kerr, Bradley works closely with communities and stakeholders to develop integrated design responses appropriate to place, Country, Peoples and culture. A Quandamooka man and an architect living, working and learning on Wurundjeri Country, Bradley is a member of the Australian Institute of Architects’ First Nations Advisory Committee, Victoria Chapter Council, the AACA’s Accreditation Standing Panel and the 2023 Australian Architecture Conference Committee. In 2023 and 2024, he curated the BLAKitecture series at MPavilion.
Susan Phillips is a founding partner of Phillips Pilkington Architects and has been director in charge of many of the practice’s award winning projects, including Glenthorne National Park – Ityamaiitpinna Yarta, University of South Australia Jeffrey Smart Learning Centre (with Wardle), and Living Kaurna Cultural Centre (with Habitable Places).
Susan has worked extensively on community and cultural projects, including galleries, libraries and community meeting spaces. She has a passionate commitment to environmental design as evidenced by the environmental awards received for the practice’s work.
Trent Woods is a registered architect and founding director of Officer Woods Architects. Established in 2007, the practice was the winner of the Gil Nicol Travel Prize (2013), for making a significant impact on the Western Australian built environment. The built work of Officer Woods has been widely published, and has won awards and prizes at both state and national levels across categories including public architecture, education, single- and multi-residential design, small project architecture and sustainability.
Trent has been a peer review award juror and regularly contributes to the architectural profession and wider community through publication, exhibition and presentations, and he is a current member of the City of Rockingham Design Review Panel.
As a founding director of Six Degrees Architects, James has played a pivotal role in shaping the firm's trajectory over the past three decades. With a passion for community-minded and sustainable housing, James has led numerous award-winning projects that challenge traditional housing models in Australia. His expertise extends to urban design, policy development, and master planning, where he is dedicated to shaping the future of Melbourne and advocating for better housing design across the country.
James has championed initiatives in the built environment that prioritise environmental responsibility and ground plane activation. His work reflects a commitment to creating spaces that foster a sense of community and belonging.
BVN co-CEO and principal Ali Bounds is both ideologically driven and pragmatic when it comes to making architecture better engage with our streets, neighbourhoods, cities and environment. The concept of experience is central in Ali’s approach to design. Her original thinking and expertise in user consultation has seen her projects recognised for design innovation and the buildings become high-value community assets stitched into their environs.
Ali is acutely aware of the responsibilities of an architect. She is committed to improving spaces for the client, for people frequenting them and for the planet. Her imprint can be found on award-winning projects spanning healthcare, research, education, workplace and adaptive reuse with pedagogical and research environments that push the boundaries and civic buildings that offer captivating journeys of discovery.
Eloise Atkinson is a Brisbane-based architect with more than 30 years of experience. Her career has largely been in the areas of education and social and affordable housing. She has advocated for well-designed housing through her role as independent chair of Brisbane Housing Company (BHC), Queensland’s largest not-for-profit housing developer and has served on the board for over 17 years.
After more than 29 years with cross-disciplinary design practice Deicke Richards, Eloise has recently stepped down from the practice where she was managing director for the last 11 years. She maintains her connection by taking on the role of Practice Partner.
Jasmine Placentino is the director and co-founder of the emerging architecture studio, Parabolica. The practice was recently recognised by the Australian Institute of Architects South Australian Chapter, receiving the John S Chappel award for Residential Architecture – Houses (New) for Three Garden House.
Jasmine began her career in urban design while completing her master of architecture at Monash University. Prior to starting her own practice, Jasmine worked with Fieldwork and later joined Kerstin Thompson Architects where she worked across civic and educational projects. Notably, the Melbourne Holocaust Museum which was recognised and awarded at a national level.
Mat Hinds established Taylor and Hinds Architects with Poppy Taylor in 2011. The practice is nationally and internationally recognised and awarded, particularly within the sphere of cultural heritage.
The architecture of Taylor and Hinds centres on an approach that is site specific, economical and strategic. Noted for its sensitivity, firmness and experiential clarity, the work of Taylor and Hinds addresses complex questions of civics, landscape, identity and history particular to the Tasmanian condition.
